Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core i7-1255U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 is faster than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-1255U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.